WTB Passionfruit vines or cuttings

[mcoambassador]

I just had to dig out my three mediocre passionfruit vines, which produced many medium sized very sour fruits. My kids LOVE passionfruit though so I need to replace them.

I’d like to buy some vines or cuttings to root (not seeds — I’ve planted dozens if not hundreds of seeds and never successfully germinated a single one) of delicious large sweet varieties that could do well here in central Florida 10a in direct sunlight, on a large trellis, and don’t require hand pollination.

Would love Brazilian gold, Ernie, others… maybe Liguris/lillekoi? open to others for container culture that may require hand pollination like p.popenoveii, p.decaisnean, p.alata…

Cheers!

[gumbo2go]

Hi, 
I have fresh cuttings of giant passionfruit (Passiflora quadrangularis) and ruby glow (passiflora alata).  Both are vigorous growers & delicious varieties.

[sc4001992]

Brian, I noticed you did buy the Dennis large yellow fruit passion fruit cutting from me last year, any luck?

If there is enough interest in cuttings this year, I may take an advance order for the Dennis cuttings this year and sale it one last time. Last year I had a truck load of his cuttings but there was not enough interest, so I ended up having to throw the rest away and spend a lot of my time cleaning and prepping the cuttings. Also, it was not the best situation since he had the Fredericks vine growing next to the yellow and vines were interwind. Now he removed most of his Fredericks and is keeping the two vines growing away from each other.

[mcoambassador]

Hi, 
I have fresh cuttings of giant passionfruit (Passiflora quadrangularis) and ruby glow (passiflora alata).  Both are vigorous growers & delicious varieties.

Hey Gumbo! How’s ruby glow taste in your opinion? I read this about it: “ Ruby Glow Passionflower is sometimes mistakenly sold as a selection of Passiflora alata but it has been determined that this is actually a selection of P. phoenicia selected and introduced by Patrick Worley of Suncrest Nurseries.”

[mcoambassador]

Brian, I noticed you did buy the Dennis large yellow fruit passion fruit cutting from me last year, any luck?

If there is enough interest in cuttings this year, I may take an advance order for the Dennis cuttings this year and sale it one last time. Last year I had a truck load of his cuttings but there was not enough interest, so I ended up having to throw the rest away and spend a lot of my time cleaning and prepping the cuttings. Also, it was not the best situation since he had the Fredericks vine growing next to the yellow and vines were interwind. Now he removed most of his Fredericks and is keeping the two vines growing away from each other.

Sadly instead of rooting, I tried to graft, and we had a crazy heat wave that week and it dried all my grafts and they failed. 😢 Next time I’ll root instead, which seems safer.

[sc4001992]

ok, I may work better to root it, but not high percentage of success, no different than any other passion fruit cutting.

I will be rooting them myself this time so if anyone else didn't have success, I can sell the rooted cutting of the Dennis passion fruit.